Small 8vo. Ribbed blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket. xxxii, 85pp, (1p ad). Tissue-guarded frontispiece. Very good/good plus. Jacket edgeworn and rubbed, with small edge chips and single large chip at head extending onto rear panel. First edition of this conjecture on how Lincoln might react to contemporary events. Interestingly, the front flyleaf bears the light nonauthorial gift inscription "Christmas 1925 / With Best Greetings / William Sacks." Sacks was a wealthy St. Louis oil man and bank director who befriended Hill and had the author gift copies of this book to other friends. Seldom seen in the dust jacket MONAGHAN 2779. Seller Inventory # 42263

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Title: If Lincoln Were Here

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York

Publication Date: 1925

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: 1st Edition

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Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts has been buying and selling quality books, autographs and ephemera since 1991. We specialize in general antiquarian, first editions, signed books and autographs and documents. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA), Midwest Antiquarian Booksellers Association (MWABA), Universal Autograph Collectors Club (UACC) and The Manuscript Society.

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Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
9304 Saturn Ln, Galena, IL, 61036, U.S.A.

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